Overview
- The revised staging is currently playing a weeklong engagement at the Metropolitan Opera with Sting in the lead role.
- This production reflects a Barney Norris rewrite that has been presented on an international tour after earlier London and Broadway versions.
- Sting has said he treats the show as a living work and has moved songs and reshaped characters across multiple iterations.
- The Met cast includes reggae star Shaggy in a newly written role called the Ferryman, a change intended to broaden the show’s casting and sound.
- The Last Ship draws on Sting’s upbringing in a northeast England shipbuilding town and follows a project that first reached Broadway in 2014 and later returned to London.